The round thing on the door is a doorbell. You have never heard of Acme!? Have you never watched the Roadrunner cartoons? Back in the day Acme made everything. The sorrow I feel seeing old abandoned homes like this is beyond words. She held her people even in death. She is silent, sad, no children's raucous laughter, no one to polish her into beauty. The piano's silent. I'm sure she must have been a music teacher or played piano in church. She will stand till nature takes her home...
I love every single piece of Carol's and her husband's furniture!! Did they NOT HAVE HEIRS WITH WHOM THEY LEFT THE MANY ANTIQUES IN THAT HOUSE? I just wish like crazy that I could get permission from her remaining family members, probate court, or tax court, to travel up there and remove the white set, and the sleigh bed , the high back walnut bed frame, the china cabinet, the buffet and diningroom set, the dessert cart, and possibly a chiffarobe that i think i saw in one of the bedrooms. Yeah. A lot. I know. I would be so HONORED TO OWN THEM , BUT I KNOW ITS only just a dream.
True. Back then you got 3500 sq foot solid wood, well made, built to last homes for under $20K. Now you get a tiny 1200 sq foot vinyl siding and drywall box for $300K (with all the unjust usary the banksters collect on their death contracts...aka "mortgages"...).
Especially mansions, Rihanna’s mansion once owned by a famous baseball coach after her abandoned the place with all their things left behind , I believe it’s been abandoned for over 15 years😕
SO EXTREMELY SAD.....Poor Carol obviously was a VERY sick woman....it's so heartbreaking that she was left ALL alone most likely I pain & suffering until her last dying day....NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO DIE LIKE THAT!!! HER relatives should have been there for her & if she no longer had any, her neighbors should have been!!! **If ANY of u have an elderly relative or neighbor PLEASE CONTINUOUSLY HELP/CHECK ON THEM EVEN IF THEY DECLINE!!! OUR ELDERLY SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN AND LEFT TO ROT!!! 😢
That's so true and you are a compassionate person. My next door neighbor is about 64 and suffers major depression. She's all but a hermit and her house is just falling apart. Last week, I noticed a window on the second floor had blown out. That will obviously make it very difficult to heat and could cause horrible mold. She refuses any kind of help no matter what. We are outside a tiny rural town in the unincorporated part of the county, so not like there is an HOA. It breaks my heart, but I don't know how I or any other neighbors can help.
@@annabodot962 that's indeed sad, I've heard that its possible to call the authorities and ask for them to do a health check on a older person who cannot look after themselves properly and in danger of a fall from an unkept house..
Did you know there are elderly people who want to stay independent so badly they're willing to suffer for it. Happens all the time. They do NOT want to leave their own private home to go live with children to be a built in babysitters for grandchildren in their final years. Not everyone needs or wants to be "saved". And not everyone deserves it. You think because a person is elderly they're a saint?
You can just picture in your mind their daily lives moving through the house. I love 💕 imagining how they lived back then. I’m a 1952 baby so I’ve saw a lot of homes like that growing up in Westville, Indiana. My grandparents house was only one story but very similar. Thanks Rick, gave me pause for thought today. I’m lucky to have close family kids and grandkids. After my husband passed my oldest grandson moved in with me so I wouldn’t be alone. We share our costs for everything and when I pass he will get my house. So sad this poor woman died all alone. 😢❤
The "gears" on the front door was the doorbell. Outside was a wind up toy type twist mechanism that made the gears wind up and release, causing the hammers to hit the bell and make it ring. The bottom odf what you thought was a baker's rack is actually the bottom of a washstand. The handles were for hanging your towel and washcloth on to dry. The mirror is missing, and it should have held a large bowl type washbasin and pitcher for the water
I feel like most of us who are fascinated by the past are old souls. I love abandoned homes and graveyards. I am highly sensitive and definitely feel I come from another era.
Very sad,I feel like her spirit would be more at peace once she sees love and laughter fill those walls once again. I hope someone saves that house and turns into a home.
I am just in disbelief about how much was left behind. The family just left it all there to rot. It's not really very hard to call an auction house and have an estate sale. I find it incredibly disrespectful of her survivors to just let her things decay in such a manner. And unfortunately as you said it's not uncommon but I still can't wrap my head around it. Those pianos and furniture which I'm sure she loved could have been sold to people who would have been thrilled to have it.
@@angelmist4253 I think the main issue is the fact that it costs money to do all that, these are times when you really can't rely on volunteers to clean out a house. When you're talking about large items like you see here it can be cost prohibitive because in today's market they are really not worth what you would think they may be. Otherwise yes, the place would have been completely cleaned out a long time ago. When the widow died the house and land were almost certainly sold for the back taxes to someone who might lease out the land it's on for hunting or farming. Kinda sad but sometimes the interest of a new owner is elsewhere than preserving old houses....
My mother in-law was one of those types that would rather leave everything to rot than to have anyone especially strangers having any of her things. She was very eccentric and would have taken it all with her if she could have.
The stains on the couch was probably body fluids from decompression, happens more often than you think sadly. Always check on your elderly neighbors/friends at least every other day, they might not have family.
The stains on the couch was probably body fluids from decompression, happens more often than you think sadly.always check on your elderly neighbors \ friends at least every other day, the might not have family.
I don’t understand how Carol died alone, wasn’t her family checking on her or someone taking care of her. No one knew she had died for some time. How sad.
Very sad..it had to be lonely and scary being sick and no one to help her..plus all that beautiful furniture and no family to preserve and cherish it. I see so many beautiful homes that kids don't want or care to keep in the family once the parents pass away...I'm ultra sentimental.. lol.. I keep so many " memories"...pics,drawing,trinkets...🙃 if I had a mom ...bad or good,I don't think I'd move away and forget her...🥺
This was one of my great grandma fears, dying alone especially when she started to out live her, children, grandchildren and all her close friends. She passed on in 2001 at the age of 96 in her bed with family present.
Extremely melancholy story. It's heartbreaking to think about all the days,weeks,years? this little woman lived all alone. I'd like to think she just laid down and went to sleep. I took my Mom home to live with me in her final years,she didn't die alone. I gave most of her clothes away...I divided furnishings with a brother,sold the house,she passed debt free,no will was necessary. Everything can be taken care of before an elder passes. I agree with the other comment,it takes respect. We have more people in our society today that just don't care...only think of themselves...and they just don't have any time for that,excuses. Excuses,and apathy get you nothing. Thanks for the video, they need to see these stories,maybe they'll think.
You've never heard of Acme?! It means the highest quality. It also was the name of a prominent grocery store! They were everywhere before giant. You're older than me and I remember them well. Even in old cartoons, weapons usually had the "Acme" logo. Like on anvils.....? Wow.
The “gears” on the door is for a windup door bell. Originally it would’ve been covered with a round metal plate that would’ve been struck by a lever when someone rang the bell from the outside resulting in a ringing sound. It had to be wound up like a clock, it works similarly to a windup bedside alarm clock. I recall my family had one in the 1960’s on our front door & I remember watching my mother wind it up, it was very loud when fully wound lol..greetings from across the pond 🙋🏻♀️🇬🇧
Lots of inaccurate descriptions in this walk-through. They built a log cabin & you show a wooden ancient barn. That's an Acme steel kitchen cabinet. These were popular before WWII but this one looks like 1948. The sink is probably American Standard out of Pittsburg. Frigidaire-made stoves & refrigerators -- I had one from the 40s where I kept my beer as a kid. The company was founded in 1918. House looks like it's been looted pretty good. The framed pictures over the upright piano are not family members -- they're actors. From left: Henry Fonda (not Jimmy Stewart), Tyrone Power & Bob Hope. What's funny is that house explorers (many) go through the rooms where there is black mold (dangerous stuff) without masks or gloves, move things around like disintegrating books filled with paper mites, breathe stale air -- and you caught in your video the atmosphere in that house with all the dust & spores airborne at 13:15 & toward the end of the video too. That's what you're inhaling RangerRick. Wear a mask, please. These items may not have been left behind. Someone is the caretaker of the estate. Someone pays the taxes on the plot of land. Someone boarded up the front door & windows on the second floor. Wrapped the wire around the old telephone. Maybe there are issues with the insurance settlement. Issues with relatives who may live in another state. The picture of the young boy may have been her son. If she died on that couch (it's not necessarily murder). She probably had a heart attack, died, and was dead for a few days or weeks. A body will expel fluids -- it doesn't all look like blood -- it looks like the beginning of decomposition. Blood is far darker than what you're showing & it's not centralized. It's scattered. It's where she had lain. The piano is a Brambach -- established in 1823. One of the earliest & largest piano manufacturing companies of the late 19th Century - early 20th Century. An old Baby Grand could go for $2500 today & Brambach's (though they manufactured many pianos often made a good product). This one needs total restoration. They weren't designed to stand the test of time. The company went out of business in 1957. Upstairs you say it's easy to squat (squatters being homeless people who move into abandoned structures). But what's dangerous is if it's a shooting gallery (where they buy, sell & inject drugs). If any evidence is seen I'd get out fast. Uncovering a nest of drug addict activity can be threatening. Good luck -- but take better precautions.
I hope they take your advice on . I love to watch videos on old places but I’d hope things are put back where found even if it is ransacked already . Photos should be blurred out because at the end of the day it is trespassing and it once was a beloved home that is still owned by someone . Mask and glove up for health reasons and be respectful .
I saw a video by a European man exploring an old house. He pointed out the bidet and said it must be for washing feet! I was surprised, because bidets are commonplace almost everywhere except the U.S. and this was in Europe, filmed by a European. So, urbexes DO make some laughable mistakes!
That is a shame for that house to set rot. So many homeless that need shelter. All of that old furniture could be sold and donate the money to help people that are in need
When a person dies and is laying there, without being found, the body starts to decompose. Decomposition leaves fluids everywhere. This is probably what we are seeing on the sofa. Very sad Carol was not found sooner. 😢
I cannot imagine the despair she went through alone in there after losing her husband and being elderly herself. It’s odd the kids just abandoned the house. There might have been some bad memories in there for them. You don’t know what goes on inside a family.
You're making a lot of assumptions. She lived much longer than her husband. What on earth makes you assume she was in despair for all those years? She might have had a very happy life for all you know.
@@kenlewis11 What a ridiculous comment. Not having a heart has nothing to do with what I said, and nothing could possibly be further form the truth. Read: There is NO proof the woman who died was in despair. NONE. Zero. Zilch. To assume that someone died in despair is disrespecting the dead. That is TERRIBLE.
This is so sad. My mother was Japanese and taught me that we take care of our ancestors. Her ashes are in Japan in the family temple. The monks care for the ancestors so they are not forgotten. I have her shrine in the dining room in a hutch. That way, she is still a part of our lives. I also have my father-in-laws ashes in the hutch as well. My mother-in-law is buried with the rest of the family, but my husband cannot bear to visit her grave site. But I have her picture and some of her belongings in the hutch so that she can still be a part of the family. It is sad to me that family can be forgotten. Just because they are dead doesn't mean that they are no longer a part of our lives.
Too bad Japanese culture is plagued with lonelines and homeless elderly people today. It's an epidemic there and you can watch the documentaries about it here on TH-cam.
Loved this. As I am watching your channel for the first time, I am pausing as you entered the back door into the kitchen. The ACME company made both porcelain coated steel sinks and cabinets starting in 1948. The house my father grew up in was built in the 1820's and sat on 1200 acres in the Sequache Valley in East Tennessee. He was the last generation of his family to live there. At our family reunion , just last weekend, I was looking at some old photos my cousins brought and in one of them, I saw the kitchen sink and cabinets, that I remembered my grandmother having in her kitchen about 25 years after they moved from the farm to town (after Papa Payne died). They were in a picture of the "old home place," on the farm. However, I remembered the exact same kitchen in the house where my grandmother lived, in town. I asked about the kitchen sink/cabinets and its exact match to her kitchen that I remembered so well. It turns out, my grandfather built this "new" kitchen for grandmama and when they moved into town, Daddy's brothers took it apart and moved it into the kitchen, that I grew up in, at their new place. It was an Acme kitchen. I almost cried when I saw the name on these. Until now, my grandmother had the only one I ever knew existed. You made my heart smile with this one. We washed many a ton of produce from the garden in that old sink. So to put this into context, the kitchen here post dates WWII but just barely. ❤
We bought a 150 year old farmhouse. It had been abandoned for many years. There was an antique metal Beauty Queen sink/cabinet. We restored it (had a lot of rust) and it now has a prominent place in my vintage kitchen replete with a working Kelvinator and O'Keefe & Merit gas range. So many treasures left behind here including a gorgeous antique clawfoot tub.
Its. Probably an electrolux vacuum. I inherited my grandmothers. I like this place . Very homey. Most of the bedroom furniture is mahogany. Worth tons of money. Id keep it and clean it up and keep it.
The cabinets are not made of tin. They are made of steel, which was popular in the 1920's & 30's. The small design reflects an Art Deco motif. The have com back in fashion in England & these old cabinets are being restored/refurbished for use in today's kitchens. They tend to discourage mice. The blood on the couch has the same pattern in the different places it appears. I venture to say the pattern imprints might very well be from her being in a sitting position or the possibility that she was quasi-reclining. There isn't enough blood to indicate she bled out.st She was bleeding from The item on the front door was the inner workings of a doorbell. The furniture styles run from the late Victorian era thru the 1970's? The sofa she died on has me bit stimmed because it is a classic style that has been made up thru 2023. Upstairs in the bedroom with the white furniture, there is a little table to the left of a window (Time Marker 22:25 / 23:05) Behind the picture is a Goofus glass vase that appears appears to be in excellent shape with none of the original finish having been removed, which more often than not happens. Goofus glass is pressed or mold-blown glass with cold-painted (not fired on in a furnace) decoration. It has very defined raised pattern in the glass often referenced as "blown out." The pattern can also be pressed into the glass from beneath the surface providing an intaglio effect Goofus glass is thought to have been produced from 1897 through the early 1920s. Goofus glass was made by a number of noteworthy glass companies, but the most prolific manufacturers were the Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson, and Indiana glass companies. Northwood and Dugan made Goofus glass prior to beginning production of their more well-known carnival glass pieces in 1908. According to an article by David Ballentine, Goofus glass was originally marketed by such captivating names as “Egyptian Art,” “Golden Oriental,” and “Intaglio Art,” On the white stool directly across from the white baby bed is what appears to be a linsey-woolsey woven comforter or bedspread. I can't see it well enough to say for sure. However with the age history of the house, that is a definite possibility.
@@bronwentillman8385 They were indeed - not like the planned obsolesce like things are made these days. I don't understand why manufacturers don't realize they can make things that last because there are (1.) Always individuals who have to have the latest fashions/styles, etc. & (2.) Those who want things that last will spend the money they safe because things last on other manufactured goods. Oh well, logic has nothing to do with it.
That piano has seen some better days for sure. I bet I could never find one right keys to get a Hal decent song out of it now. Those keys look like they are ready to break right off the piano keyboard. Wow.
One possible reason so many things are still in the house……my mother-in-law from Nebraska inherited her sister’s house in California. They were both in their 80s. My husband and his brother plus me & my sister-in-law had to fly in from Iowa and Montana to help my mother-in-law go through the house (first time she had been in it) so she could take what she wanted and ship a few things back to Nebraska. Two women had lived in that California house and the last to die left it to her sister (my mother-in-law). No other relatives lived in California so there you have a house filled with belongings from two women who bought the house in the 1940’s. Eventually a realtor sold the place and I have no idea what happened to all the furniture, etc. When relatives have to fly in from other states, obviously emptying a house of a lifetime of goods that no one in the family wants means it either stays with the house or is auctioned. There are also people who buy old properties like hoarders and never get around to doing anything with them.
Just sad how a house deteriorates when a person passes. You'd think someone would have purchased it, but no, it just ROTS AND SLOWLY BECOMES PART OF THE LANDSCAPE. May Lawrence and his lovely wife Rest In Eternal Peace.
That vacuum upstairs may have been an Electrolux brand. That round thing on the back of the front door with the gears was a hand cranked Bell, on the back of the door was a round brass part that screwed into the center of the gears and outside. The front door was a small hand crank knob. You would spin it and the Bell would ring.
Since I was a kid my parents and aunts seemed to be the ones in charge of going through the homes of the elder relatives that passed, they would split stuff up between each other, and have a sale on the stuff that was still in good shape and people could use, many times just giving things away. The other stuff would end up being thrown away. I'm 63 so us cousins would find things and laugh at what these items were for. That's why now that I'm older I dont collect anything anymore, I dont want my daughter and nieces having to go through my stuff 😂, trying to make it easy on them lol. It's just so sad what I see left behind in some of these beautiful abandoned homes, beautiful furniture, dishes, etc. Will share your videos Rick.❤
The gears on the door is a door bell. It’s missing its backing. From the outside you would turn or twist som sort of knob and it would make a unique sound to alert the occupants of visitors at their door. 😊
I think the first room, you said it was her bedroom because of the funeral flowers on her bed, my guess is that this is the room where they had the casket after she had died until they brought it to the funeral. That would explain why there is no furniture at the back wall, to make space for the casket. And after the funeral, they just came back quickly to drop off the flowers and that satin-heart- thing in the same room they were before the funeral. But I think the second bedroom you showed was her real bedroom.
Kitchen cabinets, my in laws built their house in early 1950s. Same cabinets. So much furniture in this home is similar to in law’s home, had been inherited from their parents and grandparents. Many items appear to be from 1950s. They also had pianos and that vacuum cleaner. I had to clean out their house by myself. A daunting task. This encourages me to continue getting rid of my own old stuff so that my children don’t have to deal with it. I offer it to them now, explain the history and get rid of it if they don’t want it.
I had never watched this program before. I found it very interesting. I Iove hearing about the stories of houses where people lived and died. Found this to be very interesting. Will continue to keep watching in the future.
Looks to me like Carol died an elderly person's unattended home death and may not have been found for a bit - so the couch got a bit icky. Fluids and stains don't have to mean something happened that you have to figure out. That's just silly ol' drama mongering for clicks. Stop that. She was old. She died at home. She probably wasn't found for a few days, and decomp started. It happens far more than people realize.
@DeniseBrawn: Agreed. I read an account several years back of an elderly widow who lived alone like Carol for many years and either had no family or no one cared and died while sitting at her kitchen table. When someone finally found her after she had been deceased for several years, they found the chair she was sitting in laying on it's side with her melted into the caving in floor in the kitchen. She had literally become one with the floor. This story has haunted me ever since I read about it.
@@CrystalsColorStyle When I am bored and nothing good on tv, TH-cam usually offers something in my wide range of interest.I love it... especially the history...known or. Not I fing it all interesting. This is sad. I hope the woman is at peace now
The photograph between Henry Fonda and Bob Hope was Tyrone Power. My dad was a funeral director in Los Angeles. He knew the man who embalmed Mr. Power. It is said he didn't have a scratch or mark on him. Usually people have scars of some sort but his body was perfect.
I once owned a historical home and can tell you that the mechanisms on the door is where the door bell was. The doorbells were very different. The individual would twist the bell instead of pushing a button.
@@aj-2savage896 Yeah I bet it was gorgeous before the ugly 1970s "remodel" with the hideous particle board paneling. That was about the decade our controllers got us used to cheap and ugly materials for our homes while they were busy inflating the prices and deflating the dollar....(aka covert theft of the masses).
those mattresses are super old lol had those when i was a small child. the blood on the sofa puzzles me, it doesnt look like someone bled out, unless her heart stopped first in which case the blood wouldnt come out as fast because of no way to pump the blood round the body because of the heart stopping, still a very sad story. i love old houses like this, thank you so much !
I thought the newspaper that was older was a tell tale sign that someone packed some glass up. it's weird to not peek in the drawers and closets but the flowers? I just can't see the family bringing them to the empty house. that's just nothing I've ever seen done. It's an okay video but left out a lot...Keeping the light on while they did the filming would have been nice.. I'm sorry to vent on your comment but there's a lot that could have been known if they'd peek around. A walk thru isn't going to tell you much.
@@maggiemay-ip8ls - You're not venting on my comment you're adding to it Maggie May. And the only thing I could think of in regards to the flowers is that neighbors or friends brought them to the house -- not the family. Unless the funeral was in the house & not at a funeral parlor. You're right, the newer newspaper may have been used to wrap something. The death was in April (the 90s) as the calendar indicated since it never advanced. When they video they should avoid family pictures, utility bills in drawers, diaries, address books, and anything with their address on it -- should not be videotaped (out of respect).
I recognized Bob Hope on the right, but can't tell who she said was on the left. Looks like a very young Henry Fonda, maybe Paul Muni. But it didn't sound like she said either of those.
@13:26 This was an old fashioned thing back then well I must be old fashioned cause I have a photo of my favorite character actor framed that I recently got for my birthday this year and I placed near my nightstand. 😆
All property owners, spirit or flesh have a natural need for privacy and total respect of property. Whether it is a rare time capsule or today’s Walmart is still all someone’s property, spirit, privacy. This video was done well and I liked the fact that it’s not a bunch of kids looking for free antiques to steal and sell, but rather older, mature folks filming. The very heavy vacuum cleaner in this video was called a bullet vacuum. Lots of elders leave outdated calendar’s on walls for several reasons, Broken pipes and floods in there a few times as well based on the wall in that bedroom.
The thing on the front door is a door bell from the 20's there would be a knob on the outside which the visitor would turn and the gears would turn making a sound much like a child's bike bell
I really enjoyed your video. I am new to your channel and I loved how you presented this home, and how you included the back story of this family. The music you included was absolutely perfect given the sadness and just the feel of the story. So I am looking for more of your videos, so well done and I just loved it!!
My parents bought a home 60 years ago and had an acme sink in the basement 😊 That thing you were looking at and didn’t know what it was is a doorbell. My sister has a very old house with one of those.
Correction, Lawrence passed away in 1977 not 1997.
I was going to ask you about that...glad you made the correction.
I was gonna say lol thank you for clearing this up!! Great job btw :)
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The round thing on the door is a doorbell. You have never heard of Acme!? Have you never watched the Roadrunner cartoons? Back in the day Acme made everything. The sorrow I feel seeing old abandoned homes like this is beyond words. She held her people even in death. She is silent, sad, no children's raucous laughter, no one to polish her into beauty. The piano's silent. I'm sure she must have been a music teacher or played piano in church. She will stand till nature takes her home...
I love every single piece of Carol's and her husband's furniture!! Did they NOT HAVE HEIRS WITH WHOM THEY LEFT THE MANY ANTIQUES IN THAT HOUSE? I just wish like crazy that I could get permission from her remaining family members, probate court, or tax court, to travel up there and remove the white set, and the sleigh bed , the high back walnut bed frame, the china cabinet, the buffet and diningroom set, the dessert cart, and possibly a chiffarobe that i think i saw in one of the bedrooms. Yeah. A lot. I know. I would be so HONORED TO OWN THEM , BUT I KNOW ITS only just a dream.
It bugs me that these beautiful homes are left to rot like this. They don’t make homes like this anymore at all.
Where are the relatives...
True. Back then you got 3500 sq foot solid wood, well made, built to last homes for under $20K. Now you get a tiny 1200 sq foot vinyl siding and drywall box for $300K (with all the unjust usary the banksters collect on their death contracts...aka "mortgages"...).
For reall they were so prettyy
Especially mansions, Rihanna’s mansion once owned by a famous baseball coach after her abandoned the place with all their things left behind , I believe it’s been abandoned for over 15 years😕
You can't even get wood that dense anymore.
SO EXTREMELY SAD.....Poor Carol obviously was a VERY sick woman....it's so heartbreaking that she was left ALL alone most likely I pain & suffering until her last dying day....NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO DIE LIKE THAT!!! HER relatives should have been there for her & if she no longer had any, her neighbors should have been!!!
**If ANY of u have an elderly relative or neighbor PLEASE CONTINUOUSLY HELP/CHECK ON THEM EVEN IF THEY DECLINE!!! OUR ELDERLY SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN AND LEFT TO ROT!!! 😢
With all due respect, you are making a LOT of assumptions.
That's so true and you are a compassionate person. My next door neighbor is about 64 and suffers major depression. She's all but a hermit and her house is just falling apart. Last week, I noticed a window on the second floor had blown out. That will obviously make it very difficult to heat and could cause horrible mold. She refuses any kind of help no matter what. We are outside a tiny rural town in the unincorporated part of the county, so not like there is an HOA. It breaks my heart, but I don't know how I or any other neighbors can help.
@@annabodot962 that's indeed sad, I've heard that its possible to call the authorities and ask for them to do a health check on a older person who cannot look after themselves properly and in danger of a fall from an unkept house..
Many people will end up like this. It's a terrible reality.
Did you know there are elderly people who want to stay independent so badly they're willing to suffer for it. Happens all the time. They do NOT want to leave their own private home to go live with children to be a built in babysitters for grandchildren in their final years. Not everyone needs or wants to be "saved". And not everyone deserves it. You think because a person is elderly they're a saint?
You can just picture in your mind their daily lives moving through the house. I love 💕 imagining how they lived back then. I’m a 1952 baby so I’ve saw a lot of homes like that growing up in Westville, Indiana. My grandparents house was only one story but very similar. Thanks Rick, gave me pause for thought today. I’m lucky to have close family kids and grandkids. After my husband passed my oldest grandson moved in with me so I wouldn’t be alone. We share our costs for everything and when I pass he will get my house. So sad this poor woman died all alone. 😢❤
My mom lives with me. She's 87, I'm 61.
Nice to see people haven’t vandalized it. I’ll never understand why people do that.
The "gears" on the front door was the doorbell. Outside was a wind up toy type twist mechanism that made the gears wind up and release, causing the hammers to hit the bell and make it ring. The bottom odf what you thought was a baker's rack is actually the bottom of a washstand. The handles were for hanging your towel and washcloth on to dry. The mirror is missing, and it should have held a large bowl type washbasin and pitcher for the water
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@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd I am doing my usual things, and feeling pretty well. And you?
@@gloriahayes2488 That's okay I'm doing good so where are you from? I'm from Dallas Texas
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd Coastal Georgia, not far from Savannah
Yes. I don’t know why he wouldn’t know that. He acts so perplexed at everything like he was just born yesterday.
I feel like most of us who are fascinated by the past are old souls. I love abandoned homes and graveyards. I am highly sensitive and definitely feel I come from another era.
Same here
We are from Alantis.
@@oliviajohnjohnolivia8142 I'd like to go back!
I am the same
same here
Very sad,I feel like her spirit would be more at peace once she sees love and laughter fill those walls once again. I hope someone saves that house and turns into a home.
I am just in disbelief about how much was left behind. The family just left it all there to rot. It's not really very hard to call an auction house and have an estate sale. I find it incredibly disrespectful of her survivors to just let her things decay in such a manner. And unfortunately as you said it's not uncommon but I still can't wrap my head around it. Those pianos and furniture which I'm sure she loved could have been sold to people who would have been thrilled to have it.
Or even given away if they didn't want or need them.
It's none of your business, actually.
@@angelmist4253 I think the main issue is the fact that it costs money to do all that, these are times when you really can't rely on volunteers to clean out a house. When you're talking about large items like you see here it can be cost prohibitive because in today's market they are really not worth what you would think they may be. Otherwise yes, the place would have been completely cleaned out a long time ago.
When the widow died the house and land were almost certainly sold for the back taxes to someone who might lease out the land it's on for hunting or farming. Kinda sad but sometimes the interest of a new owner is elsewhere than preserving old houses....
My mother in-law was one of those types that would rather leave everything to rot than to have anyone especially strangers having any of her things. She was very eccentric and would have taken it all with her if she could have.
I think I heard him say someone else purchased her house after she couldn't afford it so it was another home owner after her.
That house obviously used to be so warm and full of life. So sad
But did You notice how the House is STILL standing? You won't get that kind of Life out of a Modern House, it's all cracker jack box built.
The stains on the couch was probably body fluids from decompression, happens more often than you think sadly. Always check on your elderly neighbors/friends at least every other day, they might not have family.
Was thi king the same thing
Decomposition
I agree
There’s not enough blood and body fluids left on the couch for that to have been where she passed away.
The stains on the couch was probably body fluids from decompression, happens more often than you think sadly.always check on your elderly neighbors \ friends at least every other day, the might not have family.
I was 17 years old in 1992, all the furniture and lay out of the house brought back my childhood memories
I was 22… time flies!
I was 1 years old
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I was just born that year. So you're 48?
I was 18 then and graduated high school a month after the calendar stopped.
I don’t understand how Carol died alone, wasn’t her family checking on her or someone taking care of her. No one knew she had died for some time. How sad.
So sad, I felt so bad when i saw this. I don’t know if she doesn’t have a family. May her soul Rest In Peace. How are you doing Pamela?
Very sad..it had to be lonely and scary being sick and no one to help her..plus all that beautiful furniture and no family to preserve and cherish it. I see so many beautiful homes that kids don't want or care to keep in the family once the parents pass away...I'm ultra sentimental.. lol.. I keep so many " memories"...pics,drawing,trinkets...🙃 if I had a mom ...bad or good,I don't think I'd move away and forget her...🥺
That will be me. My three kids and one grandgirl never call, visit, give gifts, etc.
@@margaretmtz7005yes...that's me.
@@gsabo1000My brother never talks to me or my mom. I'm all my mom has and we talked on the phone everyday.
This was one of my great grandma fears, dying alone especially when she started to out live her, children, grandchildren and all her close friends. She passed on in 2001 at the age of 96 in her bed with family present.
Thanks Lord family was around
Excellent...i hope thats how i go...
Got a ways to go yet.... crossing fingers..lol😂
Extremely melancholy story. It's heartbreaking to think about all the days,weeks,years? this little woman lived all alone. I'd like to think she just laid down and went to sleep. I took my Mom home to live with me in her final years,she didn't die alone. I gave most of her clothes away...I divided furnishings with a brother,sold the house,she passed debt free,no will was necessary. Everything can be taken care of before an elder passes. I agree with the other comment,it takes respect. We have more people in our society today that just don't care...only think of themselves...and they just don't have any time for that,excuses. Excuses,and apathy get you nothing. Thanks for the video, they need to see these stories,maybe they'll think.
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Hello Karen how are you doing today
Well said
I will die alone.
nice when people can pass away in the house of their choosing their home, a home.
You've never heard of Acme?! It means the highest quality. It also was the name of a prominent grocery store! They were everywhere before giant. You're older than me and I remember them well. Even in old cartoons, weapons usually had the "Acme" logo. Like on anvils.....? Wow.
All Her wee shoes lined up 🥺🥺 aww my heart
The “gears” on the door is for a windup door bell. Originally it would’ve been covered with a round metal plate that would’ve been struck by a lever when someone rang the bell from the outside resulting in a ringing sound. It had to be wound up like a clock, it works similarly to a windup bedside alarm clock. I recall my family had one in the 1960’s on our front door & I remember watching my mother wind it up, it was very loud when fully wound lol..greetings from across the pond 🙋🏻♀️🇬🇧
Lots of inaccurate descriptions in this walk-through.
They built a log cabin & you show a wooden ancient barn. That's an Acme steel kitchen cabinet. These were popular before WWII but this one looks like 1948. The sink is probably American Standard out of Pittsburg. Frigidaire-made stoves & refrigerators -- I had one from the 40s where I kept my beer as a kid. The company was founded in 1918.
House looks like it's been looted pretty good. The framed pictures over the upright piano are not family members -- they're actors. From left: Henry Fonda (not Jimmy Stewart), Tyrone Power & Bob Hope.
What's funny is that house explorers (many) go through the rooms where there is black mold (dangerous stuff) without masks or gloves, move things around like disintegrating books filled with paper mites, breathe stale air -- and you caught in your video the atmosphere in that house with all the dust & spores airborne at 13:15 & toward the end of the video too. That's what you're inhaling RangerRick. Wear a mask, please.
These items may not have been left behind. Someone is the caretaker of the estate. Someone pays the taxes on the plot of land. Someone boarded up the front door & windows on the second floor. Wrapped the wire around the old telephone. Maybe there are issues with the insurance settlement. Issues with relatives who may live in another state. The picture of the young boy may have been her son.
If she died on that couch (it's not necessarily murder). She probably had a heart attack, died, and was dead for a few days or weeks. A body will expel fluids -- it doesn't all look like blood -- it looks like the beginning of decomposition. Blood is far darker than what you're showing & it's not centralized. It's scattered. It's where she had lain.
The piano is a Brambach -- established in 1823. One of the earliest & largest piano manufacturing companies of the late 19th Century - early 20th Century. An old Baby Grand could go for $2500 today & Brambach's (though they manufactured many pianos often made a good product). This one needs total restoration. They weren't designed to stand the test of time. The company went out of business in 1957.
Upstairs you say it's easy to squat (squatters being homeless people who move into abandoned structures). But what's dangerous is if it's a shooting gallery (where they buy, sell & inject drugs). If any evidence is seen I'd get out fast. Uncovering a nest of drug addict activity can be threatening.
Good luck -- but take better precautions.
I hope they take your advice on . I love to watch videos on old places but I’d hope things are put back where found even if it is ransacked already . Photos should be blurred out because at the end of the day it is trespassing and it once was a beloved home that is still owned by someone . Mask and glove up for health reasons and be respectful .
I wondered about the sofa stains ..I know my dad used to get bad nose bleeds before he died of a stroke ( high blood pressure)
Yes I see a lot of young people that do not know what things are in houses lol.My 62 year old ass must be old because I will be laughing 😆.
I saw a video by a European man exploring an old house. He pointed out the bidet and said it must be for washing feet! I was surprised, because bidets are commonplace almost everywhere except the U.S. and this was in Europe, filmed by a European. So, urbexes DO make some laughable mistakes!
@@robertpresha9504 some cool stuff especially that old sewing machine. Were those made of cast iron?
That is a shame for that house to set rot. So many homeless that need shelter. All of that old furniture could be sold and donate the money to help people that are in need
What a lovely home shame everything is left behind some of the old stuff should be in a museum love your vids
Most of it looks like 70s and 80s stuff. Not all that old or valuable.
Looks like an old Electrolux with sleigh runners instead of wheels. My grandma had one and she would pull us on it when she vacuumed
Many furniture finds! Someone would love many of these pieces!😢 You see one man's trash is another man's treasure!!! 😊
So true!
The knob in the middle of the front door is an antique doorbell. My maternal grandparents had one.
These places are national treasures and must be preserved.
When a person dies and is laying there, without being found, the body starts to decompose. Decomposition leaves fluids everywhere. This is probably what we are seeing on the sofa. Very sad Carol was not found sooner. 😢
Lot of nice antique furniture,love houses like this
I cannot imagine the despair she went through alone in there after losing her husband and being elderly herself. It’s odd the kids just abandoned the house. There might have been some bad memories in there for them. You don’t know what goes on inside a family.
You're making a lot of assumptions. She lived much longer than her husband. What on earth makes you assume she was in despair for all those years? She might have had a very happy life for all you know.
@@blackroan2276 perhaps, unlike yourself, she had a heart.
@@kenlewis11 What a ridiculous comment. Not having a heart has nothing to do with what I said, and nothing could possibly be further form the truth. Read: There is NO proof the woman who died was in despair. NONE. Zero. Zilch. To assume that someone died in despair is disrespecting the dead. That is TERRIBLE.
That was a door bell. You had a knob on it and you turned it
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yup . a hand crank door bell.
Yes a door bell
Doorbell? Bell from a bicycle
In the mid-to-late 1800s
Oh, wow....the antiques, the pianos, the house!! I'd love to restore everything in there!
This is so sad.
My mother was Japanese and taught me that we take care of our ancestors.
Her ashes are in Japan in the family temple. The monks care for the ancestors so they are not forgotten.
I have her shrine in the dining room in a hutch. That way, she is still a part of our lives.
I also have my father-in-laws ashes in the hutch as well.
My mother-in-law is buried with the rest of the family, but my husband cannot bear to visit her grave site. But I have her picture and some of her belongings in the hutch so that she can still be a part of the family.
It is sad to me that family can be forgotten. Just because they are dead doesn't mean that they are no longer a part of our lives.
Too bad Japanese culture is plagued with lonelines and homeless elderly people today. It's an epidemic there and you can watch the documentaries about it here on TH-cam.
Loved this. As I am watching your channel for the first time, I am pausing as you entered the back door into the kitchen. The ACME company made both porcelain coated steel sinks and cabinets starting in 1948.
The house my father grew up in was built in the 1820's and sat on 1200 acres in the Sequache Valley in East Tennessee. He was the last generation of his family to live there. At our family reunion , just last weekend, I was looking at some old photos my cousins brought and in one of them, I saw the kitchen sink and cabinets, that I remembered my grandmother having in her kitchen about 25 years after they moved from the farm to town (after Papa Payne died). They were in a picture of the "old home place," on the farm. However, I remembered the exact same kitchen in the house where my grandmother lived, in town. I asked about the kitchen sink/cabinets and its exact match to her kitchen that I remembered so well. It turns out, my grandfather built this "new" kitchen for grandmama and when they moved into town, Daddy's brothers took it apart and moved it into the kitchen, that I grew up in, at their new place. It was an Acme kitchen. I almost cried when I saw the name on these. Until now, my grandmother had the only one I ever knew existed. You made my heart smile with this one. We washed many a ton of produce from the garden in that old sink. So to put this into context, the kitchen here post dates WWII but just barely. ❤
We bought a 150 year old farmhouse. It had been abandoned for many years. There was an antique metal Beauty Queen sink/cabinet. We restored it (had a lot of rust) and it now has a prominent place in my vintage kitchen replete with a working Kelvinator and O'Keefe & Merit gas range. So many treasures left behind here including a gorgeous antique clawfoot tub.
Its. Probably an electrolux vacuum. I inherited my grandmothers. I like this place
. Very homey. Most of the bedroom furniture is mahogany. Worth tons of money. Id keep it and clean it up and keep it.
The cabinets are not made of tin. They are made of steel, which was popular in the 1920's & 30's. The small design reflects an Art Deco motif. The have com back in fashion in England & these old cabinets are being restored/refurbished for use in today's kitchens. They tend to discourage mice.
The blood on the couch has the same pattern in the different places it appears. I venture to say the pattern imprints might very well be from her being in a sitting position or the possibility that she was quasi-reclining. There isn't enough blood to indicate she bled out.st She was bleeding from The item on the front door was the inner workings of a doorbell. The furniture styles run from the late Victorian era thru the 1970's? The sofa she died on has me bit stimmed because it is a classic style that has been made up thru 2023.
Upstairs in the bedroom with the white furniture, there is a little table to the left of a window (Time Marker 22:25 / 23:05) Behind the picture is a Goofus glass vase that appears appears to be in excellent shape with none of the original finish having been removed, which more often than not happens.
Goofus glass is pressed or mold-blown glass with cold-painted (not fired on in a furnace) decoration. It has very defined raised pattern in the glass often referenced as "blown out." The pattern can also be pressed into the glass from beneath the surface providing an intaglio effect Goofus glass is thought to have been produced from 1897 through the early 1920s. Goofus glass was made by a number of noteworthy glass companies, but the most prolific manufacturers were the Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson, and Indiana glass companies. Northwood and Dugan made Goofus glass prior to beginning production of their more well-known carnival glass pieces in 1908. According to an article by David Ballentine, Goofus glass was originally marketed by such captivating names as “Egyptian Art,” “Golden Oriental,” and “Intaglio Art,”
On the white stool directly across from the white baby bed is what appears to be a linsey-woolsey woven comforter or bedspread. I can't see it well enough to say for sure. However with the age history of the house, that is a definite possibility.
The kitchen sink is likely cast iron, as well
@@bronwentillman8385 More than likely you are correct.
@@MarthaOprisko back when things were made to last
@@bronwentillman8385 They were indeed - not like the planned obsolesce like things are made these days. I don't understand why manufacturers don't realize they can make things that last because there are (1.) Always individuals who have to have the latest fashions/styles, etc. & (2.) Those who want things that last will spend the money they safe because things last on other manufactured goods. Oh well, logic has nothing to do with it.
Mechanism on door is door a door bell
Love your videos!
I love the look of old houses so much detail on the outside love the big wrap around porches and Victorian homes are my favorite ❤
That piano has seen some better days for sure. I bet I could never find one right keys to get a Hal decent song out of it now. Those keys look like they are ready to break right off the piano keyboard. Wow.
One possible reason so many things are still in the house……my mother-in-law from Nebraska inherited her sister’s house in California. They were both in their 80s. My husband and his brother plus me & my sister-in-law had to fly in from Iowa and Montana to help my mother-in-law go through the house (first time she had been in it) so she could take what she wanted and ship a few things back to Nebraska. Two women had lived in that California house and the last to die left it to her sister (my mother-in-law). No other relatives lived in California so there you have a house filled with belongings from two women who bought the house in the 1940’s. Eventually a realtor sold the place and I have no idea what happened to all the furniture, etc. When relatives have to fly in from other states, obviously emptying a house of a lifetime of goods that no one in the family wants means it either stays with the house or is auctioned. There are also people who buy old properties like hoarders and never get around to doing anything with them.
Great response
Makes total sense
Ranger Rick I love your choice of background music. It gives the proper vibes that these videos should have. Thank you 🙏
I would love all that furniture, its gorgeous
I always enjoy your explores. Perfect curiosity level!! 🎉❤️⭐️
Just sad how a house deteriorates when a person passes. You'd think someone would have purchased it, but no, it just ROTS AND SLOWLY BECOMES PART OF THE LANDSCAPE. May Lawrence and his lovely wife Rest In Eternal Peace.
That vacuum upstairs may have been an Electrolux brand. That round thing on the back of the front door with the gears was a hand cranked Bell, on the back of the door was a round brass part that screwed into the center of the gears and outside. The front door was a small hand crank knob. You would spin it and the Bell would ring.
Thankyou,Sir,for this intersting,and somewhat sad story.Well done!
The dining room furniture is Duncan Fife and probably 30s, 40s, or 50s.
Since I was a kid my parents and aunts seemed to be the ones in charge of going through the homes of the elder relatives that passed, they would split stuff up between each other, and have a sale on the stuff that was still in good shape and people could use, many times just giving things away. The other stuff would end up being thrown away. I'm 63 so us cousins would find things and laugh at what these items were for. That's why now that I'm older I dont collect anything anymore, I dont want my daughter and nieces having to go through my stuff 😂, trying to make it easy on them lol. It's just so sad what I see left behind in some of these beautiful abandoned homes, beautiful furniture, dishes, etc. Will share your videos Rick.❤
Movie star pic from left to right Henry Fonda...Tyrone Power...Bob Hope 😊
Beautiful home. It's always a shame that these houses are left to collect dust and rot instead of letting someone else have it.
Sad 😔. I love old houses. God Bless her.
The gears on the door is a door bell. It’s missing its backing. From the outside you would turn or twist som sort of knob and it would make a unique sound to alert the occupants of visitors at their door. 😊
I think the first room, you said it was her bedroom because of the funeral flowers on her bed, my guess is that this is the room where they had the casket after she had died until they brought it to the funeral. That would explain why there is no furniture at the back wall, to make space for the casket. And after the funeral, they just came back quickly to drop off the flowers and that satin-heart- thing in the same room they were before the funeral. But I think the second bedroom you showed was her real bedroom.
Kitchen cabinets, my in laws built their house in early 1950s. Same cabinets. So much furniture in this home is similar to in law’s home, had been inherited from their parents and grandparents. Many items appear to be from 1950s. They also had pianos and that vacuum cleaner. I had to clean out their house by myself. A daunting task. This encourages me to continue getting rid of my own old stuff so that my children don’t have to deal with it. I offer it to them now, explain the history and get rid of it if they don’t want it.
Yep , there were lots of new or remodeled homes with all metal kitchen cabinet and sink !
I had never watched this program before. I found it very interesting. I Iove hearing about the stories of houses where people lived and died. Found this to be very interesting. Will continue to keep watching in the future.
Looks to me like Carol died an elderly person's unattended home death and may not have been found for a bit - so the couch got a bit icky. Fluids and stains don't have to mean something happened that you have to figure out. That's just silly ol' drama mongering for clicks. Stop that. She was old. She died at home. She probably wasn't found for a few days, and decomp started. It happens far more than people realize.
Hello Denise how are you doing today
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd Gross. Don't.
@DeniseBrawn: Agreed. I read an account several years back of an elderly widow who lived alone like Carol for many years and either had no family or no one cared and died while sitting at her kitchen table. When someone finally found her after she had been deceased for several years, they found the chair she was sitting in laying on it's side with her melted into the caving in floor in the kitchen. She had literally become one with the floor. This story has haunted me ever since I read about it.
Hello Mr.RangerRick i'm anew subscriver to your channel good luck and take care everyday.
Most likely nothing nefarious. Since the body wasn't discovered for some time, it looks like normal bodily fluids.
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@@jett8193lol watching abandoned house TH-cam is my new obsession 👋
@@CrystalsColorStylelol y’all are hilarious 😂
@@CrystalsColorStyle When I am bored and nothing good on tv, TH-cam usually offers something in my wide range of interest.I love it... especially the history...known or. Not I fing it all interesting. This is sad. I hope the woman is at peace now
The photograph between Henry Fonda and Bob Hope was Tyrone Power. My dad was a funeral director in Los Angeles. He knew the man who embalmed Mr. Power. It is said he didn't have a scratch or mark on him. Usually people have scars of some sort but his body was perfect.
That was really nobody's business.
Thank you for the tour! The cabinets and countertops are made from steel. Acme was very popular post WW2.
Hello Nancy how are you doing today
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd, I'm doing well, thank you!
@@nancydolan4272 That's nice you are welcome I'm doing good? So where are you from? I'm from Dallas Texas
You have such a pleasent voice😊
I once owned a historical home and can tell you that the mechanisms on the door is where the door bell was. The doorbells were very different. The individual would twist the bell instead of pushing a button.
Feeling sad for the lady😭😥😥, A lonely life! Sad story reminds us something.
What a shame to see a beautiful old home just left to decay and crumble.
Looks like that house hadn't been treated right in a long time. Things done slap-dash in later years.
@@aj-2savage896 Yeah I bet it was gorgeous before the ugly 1970s "remodel" with the hideous particle board paneling. That was about the decade our controllers got us used to cheap and ugly materials for our homes while they were busy inflating the prices and deflating the dollar....(aka covert theft of the masses).
One can wonder how much love really was given and taken within the family and the community.
Beautiful furniture in the house.
Picturing somebody desperately ripping the panels off the walls to get to the other room creeps me out maybe more than the sofa's history.
those mattresses are super old lol had those when i was a small child.
the blood on the sofa puzzles me, it doesnt look like someone bled out, unless her heart stopped first in which case the blood wouldnt come out as fast because of no way to pump the blood round the body because of the heart stopping, still a very sad story. i love old houses like this, thank you so much !
Maybe had been bleeding from her bowels for sometime, before passing
How weird her family dropped off the funeral stuff then just left the house.
Those fake flowers are so pointless.
You could shine a torch though the wood slits in the bedroom fenced off bit and try and see I would
May not have been family, but just neighbors and friends.
I thought the newspaper that was older was a tell tale sign that someone packed some glass up. it's weird to not peek in the drawers and closets but the flowers? I just can't see the family bringing them to the empty house. that's just nothing I've ever seen done. It's an okay video but left out a lot...Keeping the light on while they did the filming would have been nice.. I'm sorry to vent on your comment but there's a lot that could have been known if they'd peek around. A walk thru isn't going to tell you much.
@@maggiemay-ip8ls - You're not venting on my comment you're adding to it Maggie May. And the only thing I could think of in regards to the flowers is that neighbors or friends brought them to the house -- not the family.
Unless the funeral was in the house & not at a funeral parlor.
You're right, the newer newspaper may have been used to wrap something. The death was in April (the 90s) as the calendar indicated since it never advanced.
When they video they should avoid family pictures, utility bills in drawers, diaries, address books, and anything with their address on it -- should not be videotaped (out of respect).
I have my Grampas scrap book he made of Movie Stars .. I love it !!
Tyrone Power, I believe on the middle photo on the piano. The gears on the door was the door ringer. you turned it and it rang. It wasn't electrical.
Good catch!
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I recognized Bob Hope on the right, but can't tell who she said was on the left. Looks like a very young Henry Fonda, maybe Paul Muni. But it didn't sound like she said either of those.
@@aj-2savage896 jimmy Stewart I think
Love that pink and gold sofa in main room
Awesome video.really enjoyed watching.thank you x
I enjoyed it too, I like his videos. Hope you’re doing well?
Hello Zoec how are you doing today
I just found your channel & subscribed. I’d like how you give history of the house & owners . I enjoyed it very much. Great job.
It always baffles me how these beautiful family houses are just left abandoned. I will never understand that.
@13:26 This was an old fashioned thing back then well I must be old fashioned cause I have a photo of my favorite character actor framed that I recently got for my birthday this year and I placed near my nightstand. 😆
It must've been lonely for her there all alone after her husband died.
I thought the same...😢
Living alone does not necessarily equal lonely. Remember that.
@@blackroan2276 I know. But living alone for a long time does get lonely . At 62 years old I know. Remember that.
My great grandmother had a vacuum just like that😯
The working on the door was once a door bell! It’s very sad there was not one person to check daily on that poor little lady
This would be a perfect place to do a EVP Session.
I love old houses, and loved the stairs in this one.
amazing calendar of my birthmonth and year
All property owners, spirit or flesh have a natural need for privacy and total respect of property. Whether it is a rare time capsule or today’s Walmart is still all someone’s property, spirit, privacy. This video was done well and I liked the fact that it’s not a bunch of kids looking for free antiques to steal and sell, but rather older, mature folks filming. The very heavy vacuum cleaner in this video was called a bullet vacuum. Lots of elders leave outdated calendar’s on walls for several reasons, Broken pipes and floods in there a few times as well based on the wall in that bedroom.
I really enjoy watching, the history it amazing me. Thank you 🍀🇮🇪
Looks like body fluid not blood
I agree
The thing on the front door is a door bell from the 20's there would be a knob on the outside which the visitor would turn and the gears would turn making a sound much like a child's bike bell
I really enjoyed your video. I am new to your channel and I loved how you presented this home, and how you included the back story of this family. The music you included was absolutely perfect given the sadness and just the feel of the story. So I am looking for more of your videos, so well done and I just loved it!!
Front door with the gears that’s an old door bell. I had one of mine that I removed.
Hi Rick, that sewing machine is a treadle, meaning you had to work the foot to sew. Each of my grandmas had one. That is what I learned to sew on.
MY. GOSH. I. LOVE THIS. STUFF. WHUT. A. GREAT. JOB. IM. NEW. HERE. !!!!!! OUTSTANDING. JOB. !!!
The gear thing on door is a door bell the cover and striker are missing. It's works like a bicycle bell . The chair was a Currier and Ives material.
What a great video. Thank you for sharing. It’s a shame to see that beautiful home go to waste.
Just subscribed!!! I been watching your program all day. A great job explaining everything.
My parents bought a home 60 years ago and had an acme sink in the basement 😊
That thing you were looking at and didn’t know what it was is a doorbell. My sister has a very old house with one of those.
Jimmy Stewart was not in that group of photos. I believe that was, from left to right, Henry Fonda, Robert Taylor, and Bob Hope.
I enjoyed your video. So sad to see someone’s life’s possessions and memories just sitting there.
the thing with gears in it was a door bell , the gears hooked to a bell ,on the out side was a knob you turned and it rang the bell
Such a beautiful home 😢, it’s sad that these homes are left to rot …. Save these homes such historic pieces 💖
That gear thing on the front door is manual cranking doorbell my friend i see a lot of older homes in indianapolis that still have working examples
The stains look like the same basic patterns...I'm betting a medical issue at the end of life...😞
That is a door bell in the door with the gears. My grandmother had one. Her house was built in the 1700s